01/25/2011

Scrapbooking a Heritage Album: Part 4

In Part 4 of my latest scrapbooking project, my family's Heritage Album, we have come to the engagement of my parents, Edith and Peter.Theirs was an interesting courtship, indeed. Peter literally risked his life on several occasions just to have a date with his love. There were times that the train to Budapest that he was traveling on, was stopped as World War II bombers were spotted, and my dad and the other passengers had to scurry off the train to hide in the nearby bushes. My mom told tales of their dates where the entire evening would be spent holding hands in a community bomb shelter, where even resting her head on Peter's shoulder was considered inappropriate behavior. -So kissing had to wait until they could sneak away to a secluded bench on Margaret Island in the middle of the Danube. "So romantic", I always thought as a naive young girl.

So in the scrapbook page above, I wanted to capture the little bit of intimacy they were allowed to share in that straight-laced, war-torn society. If you look closely, you'll see that Edith is showing off her engagement ring in this photo. The scrapbook layout itself was inspired by a workshop I attended at the Creative Keepsakes Scrapbook Convention in Manchester, NH. The basic layout (sans photo, title, and the addition of the metal keyholes & the metal key -both by Tim Holtz) is the copyrighted design of the Creative Crafts Group, and the workshop was sponsored by Creating Keepsakes Magazine.

As I mentioned in earlier posts in this scrapbooking series, even though I've been designing my own scrapbook pages for many years, I thoroughly enjoyed incorporating someone else's designs into my work - and loved adding my own spin on things. I also love discovering new scrapbooking papers. The bulk of this Heritage Album was created with patterned paper from Paper Loft's Grandma's House line, and they suited the sepia tones that I chose for my Photoshop Elements-enhanced photos. This next page, in which I celebrate the wedding, is entirely of my own design:

Here we see the happy couple as they looked at their civil ceremony as well as at their church wedding. My mom often reminisced about the sparseness of the church on her wedding day. -Flowers were scarce during the war-time wedding. Apparently the lovely caretaker at the church got her hands on a field of baby's breath and filled the church with them. Edith said it looked like heaven, but she always mentioned that she wished there were more flowers. Her story was my inspiration for adding the lovely paper flowers (mostly from Prima) that caress her photo. Here are the two pages side-by-side, as they appear in the Heritage Album:

Notice that the metal elements that embellish the layout on the left are repeated by the use of the metal brads in the center of the flowers, and the metal frame that draws the eye to the date of their union. I also like the repetition of the scalloped edge on the far left (made with a paper punch) achieved with a similar paper punch by Martha Stewart Crafts, which I used to mat two of the photographs.

Sharing the Love, Enikö

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Scrapbooking a Heritage Album: Part 4

In Part 4 of my latest scrapbooking project, my family's Heritage Album, we have come to the engagement of my parents, Edith and Peter.Theirs was an interesting courtship, indeed. Peter literally risked his life on several occasions just to have a date with his love. There were times that the train to Budapest that he was traveling on, was stopped as World War II bombers were spotted, and my dad and the other passengers had to scurry off the train to hide in the nearby bushes. My mom told tales of their dates where the entire evening would be spent holding hands in a community bomb shelter, where even resting her head on Peter's shoulder was considered inappropriate behavior. -So kissing had to wait until they could sneak away to a secluded bench on Margaret Island in the middle of the Danube. "So romantic", I always thought as a naive young girl.

So in the scrapbook page above, I wanted to capture the little bit of intimacy they were allowed to share in that straight-laced, war-torn society. If you look closely, you'll see that Edith is showing off her engagement ring in this photo. The scrapbook layout itself was inspired by a workshop I attended at the Creative Keepsakes Scrapbook Convention in Manchester, NH. The basic layout (sans photo, title, and the addition of the metal keyholes & the metal key -both by Tim Holtz) is the copyrighted design of the Creative Crafts Group, and the workshop was sponsored by Creating Keepsakes Magazine.

As I mentioned in earlier posts in this scrapbooking series, even though I've been designing my own scrapbook pages for many years, I thoroughly enjoyed incorporating someone else's designs into my work - and loved adding my own spin on things. I also love discovering new scrapbooking papers. The bulk of this Heritage Album was created with patterned paper from Paper Loft's Grandma's House line, and they suited the sepia tones that I chose for my Photoshop Elements-enhanced photos. This next page, in which I celebrate the wedding, is entirely of my own design:

Here we see the happy couple as they looked at their civil ceremony as well as at their church wedding. My mom often reminisced about the sparseness of the church on her wedding day. -Flowers were scarce during the war-time wedding. Apparently the lovely caretaker at the church got her hands on a field of baby's breath and filled the church with them. Edith said it looked like heaven, but she always mentioned that she wished there were more flowers. Her story was my inspiration for adding the lovely paper flowers (mostly from Prima) that caress her photo. Here are the two pages side-by-side, as they appear in the Heritage Album:

Notice that the metal elements that embellish the layout on the left are repeated by the use of the metal brads in the center of the flowers, and the metal frame that draws the eye to the date of their union. I also like the repetition of the scalloped edge on the far left (made with a paper punch) achieved with a similar paper punch by Martha Stewart Crafts, which I used to mat two of the photographs.